already existing database handles

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Hello,
  I have been searching the mailing list and the web for an answer to this but nothing has presented itself.

  I want to use Class::DBI in a framework which already has database connections open.  It seems from the docs that Class::DBI wants to establish the connection in new().  Is there a way to tell it to use an already existing database handle?

I thought about creating the class::dbi object with fake data and then setting $obj->{db_Main} manually but seems like a nasty hack and doesn't seem to work anyway.  

Ideally, I want to be able to tell class::dbi in new to use a passed in dbhandle.  soemthing like

Class::DBI->new(db_Main => $dbh, namespace => . . . etc